topic Opening a Revit drawing in Archicad 21 in Collaboration with other software

Opening a Revit drawing in Archicad 21

mukster — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:48:19 GMT

I am trying to open a .dwg Revit file in Archicad 21. Some of the drawing is there, but other parts are missing.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Working on a Mac platform

Re: Opening a Revit drawing in Archicad 21

Christophe Fortineau — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:29:33 GMT

Dwg is not a revit file dut an Autodesk file
There is no BIM consideration into a dwg
First of all what about the dwg translator export since the Autodesk software?
Is it only drawing ? or drawing with layout ?
Which dwg translator did you use with AC21 ?
What are the things you think you lost when opening this dwg file?

Re: Opening a Revit drawing in Archicad 21

Carstenem — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 10:47:57 GMT

If possible try to get an ifc export from Revit, then you can open the ifc file in ARCHICAD.

Cheers Carsten

Re: Opening a Revit drawing in Archicad 21

Christophe Fortineau — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 10:57:35 GMT

Carstenem wrote:
try to get an ifc export from Revit, then you can open the ifc file in ARCHICAD.

Good Idea to get the 3D model
But IFC don't have any 2D inside with the exception of some minor graphic information

Re: Opening a Revit drawing in Archicad 21

rvtuser — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:40:01 GMT

Is this the reason why REVIT shows everything as generic or not real when importing a IFC File? You can see the Floor Plan and 3D Model in REVIT, but everything is imported as a rebar material...any help?

Re: Opening a Revit drawing in Archicad 21

Lingwisyer — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 01:35:33 GMT

@rvtuser wrote:
everything is imported as a rebar material...any help?

Check your IFC import settings for how it translates materials. It can be set to make everything an existing uniform material, or create a new material for each imported one.

Ling.

ps. This thread should be under the Collaborate sub...